Topic: Now for something different. #1 Part II

[J_Speegle]

What about that guard up under the dash that keeps the wires out of the wiper arms? Believe it's some sort of fiber board material. .....................

Thought so too until I compared them and in the wiper cover there is only one hole in the material and its on a little "ear" sticking out from the main shape. The one in question the hole is not located like that.


Hard to tell what it is. The edge may indicate it being sort of thicker than a cardboard heater plenum, glove box liner or wiper cover.  Surface does not look like the back side of a firewall pad nor does the surface appear to have the texture of a Dearborn/NJ pad nor the pattern from a typical San Jose pad.

Unfortunately its on the bottom so that multiple items are covering the edges so we have one fairly large hole and possible a formed/shaped area.  Also a torn/repaired visible upper edge   Humm

[67350#1242]

Kick panel insulation?

[J_Speegle]

Kick panel insulation?

On early cars always seen it the light color like roof insulation.

[preaction]

Cardboard trunk filler ?

[jwc66k]

Not related to the items shown, but the shadows near number "2", the one touching "2" is the door frame, and the continuation above it thru numbers "4" and "5" indicate the shadow of a rear quarter window, so - hardtop.
To the left of numbers "4" and "5" would be a screw hole to hole down the carpet, but it is missing which is typical of a console installation, so - console (except if the screw holes are out of frame).
The washer bag, if original to the car, has no scratch marks from the 66 flip cap, but it does not show the grip edge for a 65 screw top, WAG - 1965 car.
Rust on the floor - an East coast car.
Jim

[J_Speegle]

Cardboard trunk filler ?

Don't think any of those have round holes.

With that said and a few days dedicated to this item I 'm not sure if we're going to figure out what it is so lets close this out with some guess as to what the car is.

SO in your final response (if your still playing) give me your best guess with as much focused detail. Think its going to be impossible from the picture (unless I missed something) to determine what assembly plant the car was built at but you should be able to provide a production year, even a range of possible months is could have been built in. 

Engine? 
Trans? 
Body type/code?
Exterior color/code?
Interior color/code?
Options and anything else.


Will give this a few days then I'll post a VIN, options and maybe a couple of other pictures and info to confirm what you thought or guessed.

Hope this experiment was educational and fun.   Or maybe not 

[J_Speegle]

SO in your final response (if your still playing) give me your best guess with as much focused detail. Think its going to be impossible from the picture (unless I missed something) to determine what assembly plant the car was built at but you should be able to provide a production year, even a range of possible months is could have been built in. 

Engine? 
Trans? 
Body type/code?
Exterior color/code?
Interior color/code?
Options and anything else.


Will give this a few days then I'll post a VIN, options and maybe a couple of other pictures and info to confirm what you thought or guessed.

Hope this experiment was educational and fun.   Or maybe not 

Wow - sure got quiet all a sudden   

Agree that slop and batch grays are often very hard to tell from SGB and why I found using a fairly fresh SGB test panel to compare. When compared side by side its much easier to pick out the difference

[tim_morrison82]

I have enjoyed investigating the photos and gaining knowledge on some early parts. Also having feedback on what may or may not have been correct usumptions.

Looking forward to a 67-68 version.

Cheers

[J_Speegle]

No Guesses?

So my take away from the exercise is the following

Item #1 - Coupe or fastback  64 1/2- through approx Dec 65/Jan 66
Item #2 - July 64 - Aug 68
Item #3 - Automatic transmission light wire possibly with console
Item #4 - Under dash AC
Item #7 & #8 - Likely bucket seats
Item #9 - 65 Windshield washer bag

So possibly white exterior coupe or fastback built between July 64 and end of 65 production with bucket seats, automatic and AC.

I think I got all of the main stuff

[midlife]

Not a fastback, due to the shadow that jwc66k pointed out.

Jeff: I thought you knew what this car was?  I was going to guess it was a 65 SJ coupe.

[J_Speegle]

Not a fastback, due to the shadow that jwc66k pointed out.

Jeff: I thought you knew what this car was?  I was going to guess it was a 65 SJ coupe.

Thanks for the reminder. Lots of posts. And yes I know the car and the VIN just going through the steps since no one was giving it a go.

Now your just guessing about the San Jose part of that    and you know allot more than just 65 SJ coupe from what you've seen in the pictures

[ChrisV289]

Looking at the picture towards the bottom right it looks like it has something coming away from the rocker panel, could that be the vinyl that covers the rocker panel between the floor board and sill plate?  Definitely not a convertible.  I'd have to guess as well a coupe or fastback. 

[J_Speegle]

Looking at the picture towards the bottom right it looks like it has something coming away from the rocker panel, could that be the vinyl that covers the rocker panel between the floor board and sill plate? 

That looks to be another piece of duct tape. Owner sure seems to have used it a number of places

[J_Speegle]

So lets see how we did.

The answers we came up with lead us to
White exterior coupe built between July 64 and end of 65 production with bucket seats, automatic and AC.

The cars VIN is ..... drum roll   

5R07C13496x with a projected build date of Sept 8th 1964.

My next post will be a group of pictures from other parts of the interior that will help confirm what we deduced  in our discussion plus some additional information. Must saw we got pretty close. No way, from the pictures were we going to figure out the assembly plant, interior color/code or engine size. To name a few.

[J_Speegle]

5R07C13496x pictures

Dash and front interior area. Pic #1





Passenger side front floor board with things moved around Pic #2




Drivers side floor board. Pic #3




Rear floor area Pic #4





And even some original accessory floor mats in blue if I recall correctly